Most fortunately it happens, that since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

But I who Ráma's might had felt, And knew the blows the hero dealt, Escaped by rapid flight.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Then, after they had called— “It is the third day; I dare say your mamma has told you, my dear, never to let more than three days elapse between receiving a call and returning it; and also, that you are never to stay longer than a quarter of an hour.”
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Christian, who is dressed elegantly, but rather behind the fashion, seems preoccupied, and keeps looking at the boxes.)
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

The first analogy is worthless because there is no relation between color and perfume; the second is of great value because such a relation does exist between rain and clouds.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Even Atticus, the celebrated correspondent of Cicero, a few years after this period, had recourse to the same desperate expedient, by refusing all sustenance, while he laboured under a lingering disease.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

And like a devillish Engine back recoiles Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubl’d thoughts, and from the bottom stirr
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

[2] He is universally allowed to be the first of the ‘thirty-six royal tribes’; nor has a doubt ever been raised respecting his purity of descent.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

King Inge then got great assistance from Gregorius Dagson, a son of Dag Eilifson by Ragnhild a daughter of Skapte Ogmundson.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

[256] "Brer Wolf, he got in, he did, en Brer Rabbit stuff de hole full er dry leaves en trash, en den he got 'im a chunk er fier en totch 'er off.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

The engagement of their daughter Pauline to Mr. Henry Schmidt, barrister Dr. jur., in Berlin, is announced respectfully by Privy Counsellor of Government Dr. Eugene Brand, Royal Director of Gymnase, and Mrs. Helene, born Engel.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

Berenger de Entenza, Berenguer Rocafort, and many other 104 Aragonese nobles and knights agreed to accompany the renowned Templar, and more than four thousand almogavares enlisted.
— from The Story of Majorca and Minorca by Markham, Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir

It is needless to say that preparation had preceded execution by more than the two or three days elapsing between Roberts' arrival and the start.
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

205 Here he was denied entrance, being received with so great a shower of stones that he was forced to retreat.
— from The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser by Alfred John Church

Doctor … eaten by rats. 'Orrible affair—'orrible affair—rats—eaten by Stchewpendous rats.
— from The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The shock given to the credit of the bank by this last requisition of Bonaparte will be felt for a long time, and will with difficulty ever be repaired under his despotic government.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

In order to remove silver from a potassium cyanide silver solution, it is only necessary to allow a clean piece of plate zinc to remain in the liquid for two days; even better results are obtained by the use of iron conjointly with the zinc.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891 by Various

There is a library, where the visiters do everything but read; and a theatre, where—as Charles Kean is now playing there—they do anything but act.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various

and Dabistan, vol. iii., Miyan Bayazid), and to be free from wickedness, and crime, and quarrels, is the duty enjoined by religion.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir